The Osbourne Identity

The Prince of Darkness has taken a human genome test and to unravel the code that allowed him to metabolise all that booze

Ozzy Osbourne has become one of a select few to have his full genome sequenced (Paul Stuart)
When I got a call from The Sunday Times Magazine telling me that some
scientists in America wanted to “sequence my genome”, I honestly didn’t know
what to say.

Not ’cos I was surprised — I don’t think anything could surprise me any more
when it comes to the crazy stuff that happens to me all the time.

I just didn’t understand what he was on about. The only “genome” I’d ever
heard of was the kind you find at the bottom of the garden with a little
white beard and a pointy red hat. What did that have to do with me?

“A human gnome?” I said.

“No, genome,” said Chris, the guy who called me. “It’s basically all your
genes and the bits in between, which they can map out on a computer. The
company that arranges it all — and hires the scientists to analyse the
results — is called